Why are many houses in traditional landscape paintings painted as small near and big far? The houses have been painted in the same style for hundreds of years.

Chinese paintings do not have the western scientific perspective observation method. In Chinese painting, there is mostly scattered perspective. In addition, Chinese painting is not about the depiction of the objective scene, but about the author's perception of the object and then imagining and depicting it. Near, small, far and large is not to depict the objective scenery, but to deliberately create and arrange the composition of the picture, which is the expression of chiaroscuro. It is a way to express rhythm, sparseness and density. Chinese and Western painting are two different systems, appreciation of Chinese painting can not be aesthetized with Western painting.

Traditional Chinese painting depicts the ideal world in the mood, painting to follow the traditional style, the pursuit of literati temperament, the elegant and lonely heart of the vulgar. Chinese painting can not be modernized, but the modernization will be completely different, hundreds of years house style does not change, change the style will not feel the traditional mood. You can imagine, western oil paintings can be perfectly expressed out of the skyscrapers, not with a brush and rice paper can be expressed perfectly! Chinese painters will not make themselves suffer. This is not the essence of Chinese painting that Chinese painters seek.

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